{"id":281228,"date":"2017-01-08T13:26:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T18:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=281228"},"modified":"2020-10-28T13:30:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T17:30:50","slug":"german-greens-float-sex-prescriptions-for-disabled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/german-greens-float-sex-prescriptions-for-disabled\/","title":{"rendered":"German Greens float sex prescriptions for disabled"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>A good example for the whole world.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for the Green Party in Germany has said disabled and seriously ill people should be able to claim back public money if they pay for sex.<\/p>\n<p>They would have to prove a medical need and show that they could not pay to visit sex workers otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Elisabeth Scharfenberg, an MP, told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper that she &#8220;could imagine&#8221; local authorities paying for &#8220;sexual assistance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Prostitution has been legal in Germany since 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper wrote (in German) that increasing numbers of sex workers offered services in care homes. A sexual adviser for nursing homes told the paper that prostitutes were a &#8220;blessing&#8221; for some patients.<\/p>\n<p>In the Netherlands it is already possible to claim the cost of sexual services as a medical expense.<\/p>\n<p>The Green Party, a bigger political player in Germany than in other countries, won a place in the state coalition government in Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Its share of the federal vote fell to about 8% in the last election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-38549030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-38549030<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: A good example for the whole world. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":281229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}